How many words and pages does a PDF have?

1 min read·25 July 2026

Want to quickly know how many words a PDF has for a translation job, thesis check, or invoicing? PDFrust counts words and shows the page count directly.

Count words in PDFrust

Open the Word Count tool on PDFrust. Upload your PDF. PDFrust counts all words on all pages and gives a total. The count includes body text, footnotes, and tables.

What do you use a word counter for?

Translation agencies and interpreters invoice per word — an accurate word count gives a fair quoting policy. Students check whether a thesis meets the minimum or maximum word limit. Freelancers invoice copywriting assignments per word.

Count words in PDF

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Count pages

The page count is visible via the PDF file info tool on PDFrust. Open the Info tool and upload your PDF for a complete overview: number of pages, file size, author and other metadata.

Scanned PDFs

A scanned PDF has no searchable text — the word counter finds no words. First use the OCR tool to recognise text, then the word counter works correctly.